Posting from a hotel in Kharkov. The trip to Kharkov is quite short, standing only for one night; so already going to check out soon. Bad thing is transportation that takes 2 nights (and two different trains) to get there, so actually have to spend 4 nights in trains for the sake of one night here.
The city looks clean and accurate, most buildings are in old classical style, at least at the central part and I have an impression that central part is quite large. There's a subway here also, though city is not very large (population is 1.5 millions).
Now it's time to pack my bags...
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Thursday, July 8, 2010
Saturday, January 9, 2010
Few words about December trip to CA
Stayed 2.5 weeks in CA in December, 2009. It was surprisingly cold, esp. during the first week of my stay - from 6th to 12th.
This time wasn't driving around much but spent few nights in San Francisco instead. One of the place visited was Tommy's, tasted some tequilas and I must say that tequila is quite nice. :)
Also visited Ruby Skye and also liked it, despite of the fact that some techno DJ (forgot the name) was performing that night and I'm not much into techno.
Made the picture of it on the other day:
Also visited some other places and met some FreeBSD people -- happy about that.
Some random pic of San Francisco:
The more time I spend in SF, the more I like it.
This time wasn't driving around much but spent few nights in San Francisco instead. One of the place visited was Tommy's, tasted some tequilas and I must say that tequila is quite nice. :)
Also visited Ruby Skye and also liked it, despite of the fact that some techno DJ (forgot the name) was performing that night and I'm not much into techno.
Made the picture of it on the other day:
Also visited some other places and met some FreeBSD people -- happy about that.
Some random pic of San Francisco:
The more time I spend in SF, the more I like it.
Sunday, November 1, 2009
About St. Petersburg trip
Yesterday night I've returned from St. Petersburg trip I previously wrote about. It takes 25 hours on train to get there (and the same from there to home). Quite a lot of time, but really, not very painful. I've spend about 2 weeks there.
Right from the train we went to the office, it's only 1 subway station away from the rails station. This part of the city is really beautiful. Here's a picture of the office building:
The view of the street leading to the office:
Very nice.
In the evening we've checked in into the hotel. The room is small but accurate:
The only problem with that was the furniture. I cannot even say it is uncomfortable, but it's strange, I mean, I wasn't able to sit or lay comfortably. Also, pillows were unusually small. Anyway, it's just a whim, stuff was generally good for a hotel.
Initially, I thought I will visit various interesting places in SPb - museums, parks, palaces and stuff like that. Later on, I've realized that I've visited them lots of time before but I still don't have an overview of the city. So this time I was just walking on the streets.
I've made some photos of the places I like. I guess they don't have any value from the photographer's point of view, but probably they will make you want visit SPb or at least find a better photos :)
Great city, like it so much :-)
One more good thing about it -- your shoes stays clean even if it's raining everyday. Obviously, it's because the city is very clean.
Ah, I definitely want to visit it again.
PS Here's my bag:
I've managed to cram all my stuff into it and it looks like a giant pregnant bee. Looks even more funnier on my back: imagine a person being shagged by a giant bee, haha.
Right from the train we went to the office, it's only 1 subway station away from the rails station. This part of the city is really beautiful. Here's a picture of the office building:
The view of the street leading to the office:
Very nice.
In the evening we've checked in into the hotel. The room is small but accurate:
The only problem with that was the furniture. I cannot even say it is uncomfortable, but it's strange, I mean, I wasn't able to sit or lay comfortably. Also, pillows were unusually small. Anyway, it's just a whim, stuff was generally good for a hotel.
Initially, I thought I will visit various interesting places in SPb - museums, parks, palaces and stuff like that. Later on, I've realized that I've visited them lots of time before but I still don't have an overview of the city. So this time I was just walking on the streets.
I've made some photos of the places I like. I guess they don't have any value from the photographer's point of view, but probably they will make you want visit SPb or at least find a better photos :)
Great city, like it so much :-)
One more good thing about it -- your shoes stays clean even if it's raining everyday. Obviously, it's because the city is very clean.
Ah, I definitely want to visit it again.
PS Here's my bag:
I've managed to cram all my stuff into it and it looks like a giant pregnant bee. Looks even more funnier on my back: imagine a person being shagged by a giant bee, haha.
Friday, July 24, 2009
US Trip is almost over
My US trip is almost over - I fly back in the very early morning on Monday. Final accord would be driving to Hollywood for the weekend, then go back on the Sunday night, grab luggage and go to the airport. This trip was kinda fun and a lot of stuff happened so it wasn't boring by any means, and I feel tired and miss a lot of people I haven't seen for one month. So I look forward the Hollywood trip and getting back home then.
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Las Vegas pwnz!
I've been in Las Vegas last weekend. Well, what can I say, it's impressive!
I've attended only two shows: Blue Man Group show and KA Theatre. Both shows are really great. I'd probably visit them both again. Unfortunately, I was kinda short on money and time and haven't had a chance to try out more shows or try girls ;]
By the way, there are really lots of guys who offer girls on the Strip. They stay there any time, though there are less of them in the morning. But in the evening they stay in a row (literally) and there are LOTS of them. I wonder if that's effective, because they seem to give people all the same slides. I guess the efficiency would not change if their could would be reduced 5-10 times.
Anyway, I really liked Las Vegas. That's the first place in US where I'd agree to live. Probably it would get annoying after some time though.
I've attended only two shows: Blue Man Group show and KA Theatre. Both shows are really great. I'd probably visit them both again. Unfortunately, I was kinda short on money and time and haven't had a chance to try out more shows or try girls ;]
By the way, there are really lots of guys who offer girls on the Strip. They stay there any time, though there are less of them in the morning. But in the evening they stay in a row (literally) and there are LOTS of them. I wonder if that's effective, because they seem to give people all the same slides. I guess the efficiency would not change if their could would be reduced 5-10 times.
Anyway, I really liked Las Vegas. That's the first place in US where I'd agree to live. Probably it would get annoying after some time though.
Monday, June 29, 2009
In US again
As the title says, I'm in US again. Flight and train wasn't very good this time and while I was on road I slept only for about 3-4 hours in total. But anyway, I'm here finally and have enough time to sleep.
I will be staying here for quite a long time and I hope I will be able to find some fun stuff to do. I think I could start to annoy waitresses in cafeterias by not answering "Don't matter" when they ask about some options for the order, but asking them in details what each option means. Ok, just kidding, it'd be so cruel =)
I will be staying here for quite a long time and I hope I will be able to find some fun stuff to do. I think I could start to annoy waitresses in cafeterias by not answering "Don't matter" when they ask about some options for the order, but asking them in details what each option means. Ok, just kidding, it'd be so cruel =)
Thursday, May 7, 2009
Trip to US, part2 - food
As promised, here's a quick post about my food-related experience in US.
* First, the most impressive thing is a size of portions - they _veeeeeeeeeery_ large. Like, when you order a sandwich, they bring you two of them and bring some extra stuff like cakes or probably free. It's a lot of food, esp. for the breakfast.
* Coffee - coffee is very tasty. I tasted coffee in peet's, starbucks and probably something else I forgot and it was pretty good everywhere. Muffins and cakes there are also pretty yummu.
* The above two items lead me to conclusion that I don't really need a traditional breakfast, I'd better grab medium size coffee and a muffin or two and it's enough for me and cheaper.
* As for various kitchens, Thai and Italian are pretty good. And due to size of portions you can order chicken or pizza, eat part of it, ask for the box and use it for lunch or even for two.
* This item is closer to service than to food itself. When you order food you always get asked additional questions, like "what do you want it to be served with" etc, and it's pretty hard to tell, because I learned English from UNIX manpages and then IRC and don't know all these words =)
It's kinda problematic, because "I don't care" almost never works. But it's ok, just have to learn more food-related words :)
* First, the most impressive thing is a size of portions - they _veeeeeeeeeery_ large. Like, when you order a sandwich, they bring you two of them and bring some extra stuff like cakes or probably free. It's a lot of food, esp. for the breakfast.
* Coffee - coffee is very tasty. I tasted coffee in peet's, starbucks and probably something else I forgot and it was pretty good everywhere. Muffins and cakes there are also pretty yummu.
* The above two items lead me to conclusion that I don't really need a traditional breakfast, I'd better grab medium size coffee and a muffin or two and it's enough for me and cheaper.
* As for various kitchens, Thai and Italian are pretty good. And due to size of portions you can order chicken or pizza, eat part of it, ask for the box and use it for lunch or even for two.
* This item is closer to service than to food itself. When you order food you always get asked additional questions, like "what do you want it to be served with" etc, and it's pretty hard to tell, because I learned English from UNIX manpages and then IRC and don't know all these words =)
It's kinda problematic, because "I don't care" almost never works. But it's ok, just have to learn more food-related words :)
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Trip to US, part 1 - general impression
It's the 3rd week of my trip to US. It's my first time to US and actually it's the very first time when I've crossed the borders of motherland. I guess I will split my story in a few posts instead of making one lengthy post. In the first post I'll write up about general impressions.
The first impressive thing is that it's very clean here on the streets - almost no garbage and no dust and it's the thing I really like here.
The second thing about streets - they look all the same! I've stayed at Fremont and all the streets look same here - same houses, building of the same style and color, roads and tjunctions all look the same, so it's not very easy for me to navigate here.
I've been in other small cities in CA and it's the same for them too. Well, landscapes might be different for different cities, but in one city it's very easy to miss streets.
There's no explicit borders between cities. You walk on the street, walk over the road and you're already in a different city! It's unusual, because in Russia if you want to get from one city to other you'll have to spend at least 30 minutes riding on a car and you will see very large signs like "city X ends here", "city Y starts here".
People here like to ask you stuff like "how are you doing?" and so on, while they don't really care and I dunno why do they ask that stuff, in Russia people just don't care about you and don't ask such things. It looks like that in small cities like Fremont people prefer to stay at home after work because there's few people on the streets after 6-7pm, though maybe they just ride somewhere or something like that, I dunno. I've noticed the same in Palo Alto as well.
However, there are a lot of people in San Francisco, a lot of freaks here as well ;) and it's nice. In the centre of San Francisco I've seen a slowly riding old american car (dunno the model) on large chrome wheels and loud hip-hop sounds and serious looking persons inside of it. Looked impressive, just like in a movies =)
Subject for the next post is food.
The first impressive thing is that it's very clean here on the streets - almost no garbage and no dust and it's the thing I really like here.
The second thing about streets - they look all the same! I've stayed at Fremont and all the streets look same here - same houses, building of the same style and color, roads and tjunctions all look the same, so it's not very easy for me to navigate here.
I've been in other small cities in CA and it's the same for them too. Well, landscapes might be different for different cities, but in one city it's very easy to miss streets.
There's no explicit borders between cities. You walk on the street, walk over the road and you're already in a different city! It's unusual, because in Russia if you want to get from one city to other you'll have to spend at least 30 minutes riding on a car and you will see very large signs like "city X ends here", "city Y starts here".
People here like to ask you stuff like "how are you doing?" and so on, while they don't really care and I dunno why do they ask that stuff, in Russia people just don't care about you and don't ask such things. It looks like that in small cities like Fremont people prefer to stay at home after work because there's few people on the streets after 6-7pm, though maybe they just ride somewhere or something like that, I dunno. I've noticed the same in Palo Alto as well.
However, there are a lot of people in San Francisco, a lot of freaks here as well ;) and it's nice. In the centre of San Francisco I've seen a slowly riding old american car (dunno the model) on large chrome wheels and loud hip-hop sounds and serious looking persons inside of it. Looked impressive, just like in a movies =)
Subject for the next post is food.
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